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Retro GameSpy

Most readers know GameSpy as the site they stop at fourth or fifth while getting their gaming news fix. However, many aren't aware of its pre-Internet origins as one of the nation's top videogame magazines. That's right: GameSpy used to be right there on the shelf with EGM and EGM2. Although it never achieved the circulation of other magazines such as Juggs, GameSpy was about videogames so the comparison is kind of unfair.

As a bit of a treat, we thought we'd go back into the GameSpy archives and bring out some of our old issues so you could see which of our predictions were right... and which were a little off.

ISSUE #1: December, 1981

GameSpy's first issue was actually printed on a church Xerox machine by two brothers who didn't believe in God. That's right: GameSpy started as an amateur 'zine! As for the brothers, while their names are now lost to us, we pray they're not burning in Hell with the betrayers.

While educational games never took off the way we predicted, we still believe Ms. Pac-Man was the sexiest female food-packer until Cooking Mama. Is that a creepy thing to write? (No, I feel that way too. -Ed.)